FEATURED ANNOUNCEMENT: Late-a-thon!

I’ve been talking about this a bit on social media, but it’s time to make the official announcement for my big January readathon…

LATE-A-THON!

Late-a-thon is a month-long readathon from January 1st to 31st dedicated to working on overdue review copies and ARCS!

If you don’t read ARCs, or don’t have any overdue ones, you can still join! Just make a list of books you meant to read already, whether they’ve been on your TBR a long time or are leftover from a 2018 reading challenge.

After posting a poll on Twitter, I was STUNNED by the literal hundreds of votes I received in favor of this month-long readathon, so here we are!

I know a lot of you have challenges to begin in January, but don’t fret!

Late-a-thon is the perfect readathon to combine with other readathons and challenges!

You can choose overdue titles to fit the other themes! In this case, I’ll be making a TBR jar of overdue review copies and pulling from that jar, which lets me commit to Late-a-thon and January Jam Jar at the same time.

Here’s how you can join…

Create a TBR in a blog post, tweet, or whatever else you like to use. If you’re joining January Jam Jar, make a list of the books going in your jar!

Leave a comment here with a link to your TBR so I can add you to the sign-up list below! SIGN-UPS OPEN UNTIL JANUARY 15TH!

Use #LateAThon on social media!

READ AT LEAST ONE “LATE” BOOK IN JANUARY—that’s it! You don’t have to commit the whole month to it (in fact, many participants are just doing it for a week of their choosing), nor do you have to fulfill a certain number of titles or challenges.

My Late-a-thon Goals:

Like I said earlier, I’ll be making a TBR jar of my overdue review copies for January. Rather than list them all below, I’ll just put a link to my Goodreads shelf here, where you can view the list in its entirety!

Yay! 😀 This makes me so happy haha. Yeah, that’s where I originally thought of it, was honestly just inspired by my own personal goal of catching up in 2019. Then I figured, “hmm, I wonder if anyone would wanna join me?” and the Twitter responses were HUGE!

i’ll definitely be joining in with this! i love the idea so much. what a fantastic way to start off the new year! i think i’ll focus on reading the oldest unread books from my physical shelves personally as i don’t really have any review copies to catch up. my tbr post will go up probably later this month

Okay. I need to figure something out for this. Maybe just set that one ARC [author request, ugh] I’ve had on my Kindle for half a year as my Late-a-thon goal or something.. I DON’T HAVE ANY OTHER OVERDUE ARCS. WHY AM I THIS STUPID UNICORN. 😐

Bahahah, the ONE time not having overdue ARCs is seen as a “negative”… SORTA? 😛 Do you have anything you were going to read in 2018 and didn’t get to that you could read in January? That’s what a lot of people are going to do!

Right? THIS FEELS AWFUL AND AMAZING AT THE SAME TIME. What are you doing to my brain. xD
Eh.. Well, I’m probably putting those books in my jar anyway sooo.. Guess I’ll just put that one review copy as my “official goal” and then use all others as “books I’m reading late because I wanted to read them before but I never did because books never stop popping up and tempting me” or something. :’)

I love this. 😀 I honestly really wish I hadn’t accepted so many review requests over the last couple of months, because if I hadn’t, I could easily make January half overdue ARCs and half what you’re doing. But alas! I’m not going to force myself, obviously, but I am really hoping to make a big dent in my overdue stuff. :’)

That’s what I’m thinking, is a limit per season now. I’m not sure if I’ll post about it on the blog necessarily because it might be very specific – like I pretty much always cut myself extra slack for novellas and contemporary books because they’re quick reads, whereas the big thing is that I really need to cut back on how many of them are 450+ page fantasy novels!

Exactly! Though it’s funny, I always expect fantasy novels to take way longer than anything else, and then I picked up The Girl King last night and the text is… huge? 😂 And super widely spaced out. So even though it’s almost 500 pages, I flew through the first few chapters. (Not sure how I feel about the writing so far.)

Hahaha, I had the same with that one! I was like “ohgod..” since I got a physical ARC when I went to YALC [YAYME], and I also got approved on NetGalley so I was like.. fuck me if I don’t use the physical one for this now that I actually have one for once?! And then the text was HUGE and.. well.. I kind of liked it, haha. :’)
Saw you DNF’d it and I’m so sorry 😦

omgg I should seriously do this 😂💀I am unbelievably behind on SO many books right now…ARCs and books I’ve bought, like, years ago, but have fallen to the bottom of the TBR pile in favour of the new and shiny. I’ve never joined in a readathon but maybe this is a good time to start!!😂

This is a great idea!!! I have 12 ARCs on my NetGalley shelf. While they’re not technically THAT overdue, I still want to get them read ASAP so I can request newer ones. I’m totally joining this tag! As soon as January rolls around, I’ll put together my TBR for this challenge. Good thing my uni classes only start on the 21st!